You will likely need to be a computer programmer with hardware experience, to make this choice "work", and you may not be successful. The software may or may not be able to "interpret" the data on the diskettes into files you'll need additional software possibly, from another source. Use the software offered with the interface to collect "data". Most of these devices, don't directly support 8-inch drives. (See all the notes below.) Add a cabling adapter to make 8-inch floppy drive connections if you are working with 8-inch floppy drives. This may be a custom or hobby "microcontroller that supports or emulates floppy drives". Proceed entirely at your own risk of loss of diskettes, data, and or money.Ĭhoice two: Buy some special-purpose, private-produced, or hobby produced, floppy drive interface for 3.5" or 5.25" floppy drives for use on a modern computer. Be sure you know what to expect, as in any transaction. They will presumably hand you the files for some fee, and for an additional fee may be able to "convert" the files for use with modern "applications" (software). They will presumably offer to "convert the disks" on some kind of terms, and then process your diskettes for you. In the 21st century, you have four choices to accomplish the above goals.Ĭhoice one: contact a "data recovery service" (or find some vintage-computer techie) and tell them everything you can find out, about the origins of those diskettes, including the programs and operating system(s) used to produce them. You can't just "plug in" something and it magically "works". A few people want to read really ODD formats - hard sectored, M2FM, and so on.įolks, this is not a "plug and play" project. Some people want to read CP/M or other non-MS-DOS 5.25" or 3.5" diskettes, or old Mac 400K or 800K 3.5" Mac diskettes, on a Windows PC.
Please sell me a complete system, or tell me where to get one." Some people ask: "I have an 8-inch drive, sell me the power adapter and cable for use with my modern computer." Often they have no idea how this might be accomplished beyond those statements. Some people ask: "I want to read 5.25-inch or 8-inch diskettes on my PC/Windows/Linux machine. "I want to read old diskettes on my PC/Windows/OSX/Linux machine" To contact me, or for ordering information follow this link.
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On another Web page, I have a lot of information about floppy drives, diskette media, and various issues. This page is about ways to read and write "old" floppy diskettes (disks from systems of the 1970's and 80's). This Web page last updated dated Jan 10 2019. How to read and write old floppy disks How to read and write old floppy disks
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